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Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone Is Now a Thriving Wildlife Habitat

Timothy Mousseau, a biologist at the University of South Carolina, and his colleagues found that some birds were adapting to the radioactive environment by producing higher le...

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Boeing Says It's Made The Lightest Metal Material In The World

The product, called microlattice, is 100 times lighter than styrofoam, according to Boeing, and is made with interconnected hollow tubes. Its structure is similar to that of a...

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Gender Equality And The Global Goals

Just over a week ago at the United Nations (UN), one hundred ninety-three countries adopted a new sustainable development agenda to tackle some of the world’s most press...

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Investing In Health Workforces: The Path Towards The Sdgs Starts Here

Last month marked a transition from one era of global health and development to the next. Seventeen Sustainable Development Goals were agreed by 193 heads of st...

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Is This The Beginning Of The End Of Coral?

In 1998, an unusually sweltering El Ni?o did more than just break temperature records around the world?it heated up the oceans enough to spur what scientists came to call the ...

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Berlin's Preeminent Vr Artists Explain Why Augmenting Reality Matters

Skyping with the Deutschland duo, we chatted about how 3D camera technology is going to be a part of your life sooner than you think, how the technology can be applied at nucl...

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How Do We Keep Girls In School?

Following the World Development Report (2012), we discuss policies that can change the price of schooling under three categories: (i) direct costs; (ii) indirect costs; and (i...

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India’s Sanitation Crisis Is The Biggest In The World’

Jack Sim founded the World Toilet Organization in 2001 by breaking the taboo associated with sanitation through his unique blend of humour and seriousness. In an email intervi...

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How India's 'Sand Mafia' Pillages Land, Terrorizes People, And Gets Away With It

Nicknamed "red gold," the sand's individual particles are larger than those of other varieties, and its compressive strength makes it especially useful ? and highly prized ? f...

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The Creator of 'Ethical Ad Blocker' Is Trying to Build an Ethical Tech Business

Since its release, Kazemi has received emails from users who didn’t get the joke. One person wondered why they couldn’t access the BBC website because they didn&rs...

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STUDENT CITY PART 4

Written by Prof Dr Piyush Roy, Student City Part 4 revisits the emotional rivalries, cam...

May 14 2026

TWO POWERFUL THEATRE REFLECTIONS

Sohaila Kapur reflects on two compelling theatre experiences — the experimental st...

May 13 2026

THE STING BEHIND BOLLYWOOD PAPARAZZI

Khalid Mohamed, without being judgmental, reports on the love-hate relationship of the c...

May 12 2026